Bug 292795

Summary:	Solid always reports disk size in the form of GiB, regardless of the choice in systemsettings
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-solid	Reporter:	vyacheslav <galdralag>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lukáš Tinkl <lukas>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee, afiestas, cvnnxs, frank78ac, kdelibs-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot

Description vyacheslav 2012-01-29 14:26:36 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

I set up size units to KB,MB,GB (systemsettings -> Locale -> Country/Region & Language -> Others -> Byte size units) but dolphin,gwenview and open/save dialog of KDE shows KiB,MiB and GiB. See screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up size units to MB,GB
2. See dolphin disks tree or disks sizes in open/save file dialog.


Actual Results:  
We see KiB,MiB,GiB

Expected Results:  
Size units in everywhere should be KB,MB,GB not KiB,MiB,GiB

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.2.2-1-ARCH
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-09 07:54:37 UTC

I failed to reproduce it using KDE SC 4.9.0.  The screenshot was missing.

Is it still a problem for the reporter in KDE SC 4.9.0 ?

Comment 2 vyacheslav 2012-08-09 08:11:14 UTC

Created attachment 73057 [details]
Screenshot

This bug still exists in KDE 4.9. Screenshot attached.

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-09 09:01:54 UTC

Thanks for your feedback. The screenshot helps clarifying where the problem is.  

Move it to the "places" component for now, although I guess it should be re-assigned to the kfile product.

Comment 4 Frank Reininghaus 2012-08-09 10:43:36 UTC

I think that these device names come from Solid.

Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-17 11:39:12 UTC

in kdelibs/solid/solid/backends/udisks/udisksdevice.cpp

// Adapted from KLocale as Solid needs to be Qt-only
static QString formatByteSize(double size)
{
    ...
}

So it uses KiB/MiB/GiB in hardcoded way .

Comment 6 Jekyll Wu 2013-01-15 15:18:31 UTC

*** Bug 313299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Lukáš Tinkl 2013-01-15 15:22:57 UTC

Yup, confirmed. Solid is Qt-only code so it doesn't respect the user settings in this regard

Comment 8 Alex Fiestas 2013-04-02 19:13:57 UTC

Maybe we should have some kind of backend mechanism for this but not going to happen until solid2.

Setting as wish.

Comment 9 Jonathan Riddell 2015-03-11 19:10:25 UTC

This bug is reported on libsolid which is the kdelibs4 version of the solid library.  It is now in maintenance mode.  If you think it should still be fixed in the KDE Frameworks 5 version of solid please move it to or report a bug on frameworks-solid.

Comment 10 Bug Janitor Service 2023-12-20 13:34:35 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/solid/-/merge_requests/153